mrmylanman
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Hey all,
I have a Xeon E3-1230 and it is a great CPU so far. No overclocking unfortunately but it is pushing out a 6900 WU in just about 2 days spot on, (second WU on it, I don't remember the other one, but the time was around the same).
This is around the same as my overclocked i7-920, while creating a lot less heat so I'm happy.
However, this computer has 4GB of RAM. Is that limiting my times any? I'm using Ubuntu, but will move on to Arch when I get the free time to do so, which will cut down on overhead somewhat, and there are better kernels available for Arch which might speed things up as well.
The "system monitor" says only 2.6GB are being used, and I indicated all the RAM as available to it, but I remember back in the day someone said you really want to have at least 6GB if possible for folding bigadv units, so I'm not sure if that applies or not.
Any clarification would be great! Thanks
I have a Xeon E3-1230 and it is a great CPU so far. No overclocking unfortunately but it is pushing out a 6900 WU in just about 2 days spot on, (second WU on it, I don't remember the other one, but the time was around the same).
This is around the same as my overclocked i7-920, while creating a lot less heat so I'm happy.
However, this computer has 4GB of RAM. Is that limiting my times any? I'm using Ubuntu, but will move on to Arch when I get the free time to do so, which will cut down on overhead somewhat, and there are better kernels available for Arch which might speed things up as well.
The "system monitor" says only 2.6GB are being used, and I indicated all the RAM as available to it, but I remember back in the day someone said you really want to have at least 6GB if possible for folding bigadv units, so I'm not sure if that applies or not.
Any clarification would be great! Thanks